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Top Documentary Films

“Documentary film” is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to “document” reality. (Wikipedia)

National Geographic - In the Womb

National Geographic - In the WombFrom the moment of conception, every human embryo embarks on an incredible nine month journey of development. Now, cutting-edge technology makes it possible for National Geographic’s In the Womb to open a window into the hidden world of the fetus and explore each trimester in amazing new detail. Revolutionary imagery sheds light on the delicate, dark

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Last Stand of the 300 - The Legendary Battle at Thermopylae

Last Stand of the 300 - The Legendary Battle at ThermopylaeIt is almost impossible to understand how 300 Spartans managed to hold off the million-man Persian army for even a moment, much less seven days. To a man they paid with their lives but their stunning Last Stand assured that their sacrifice would resonate throughout history. Relying on brilliant tactics, lifelong training, and unshakable allegiance, the doomed Spartans

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Deliver Us From Evil

Deliver Us from EvilFilmmaker Amy Berg recounts a harrowing story of child abuse and how a serial child molester went free for the better part of two decades in this documentary. Oliver O’Grady was a Catholic priest who served in a number of parishes in Southern California during the 1970s and ’80s. O’Grady was also a habitual child molester who abused dozens of youngsters who were entrusted

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Deadliest Catch - Season 1

Deadliest Catch - Season 1Forty-foot waves, freezing temperatures and a nearly 100-percent injury rate: Crab fishing off the Alaskan coast on the icy Bering Sea is one of the world’s most dangerous jobs. But it’s also one of the most lucrative, offering tens of thousands of dollars for a few days’ work. Narrated by Dirty Jobs’s Mike Rowe, Deadliest Catch follows one group of

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Why We Fight

Why We FightIn 1961, as Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his final address to the nation before leaving the office of President of the United States, he warned that America “must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence…by the military-industrial complex.” Nearly 45 years later, as the United States finds itself waging a war in Iraq for reasons that seem increasingly unclear

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Shut Up & Sing

Shut Up & SingThis Chicks flick by Barbara Kopple (Academy Award winner for Harlan County, U.S.A.) and Cecilia Peck is powerful testament to the inconvenient truth that free speech can come at a very high cost. The Dixie Chicks, Texas-based and one of country music’s most successful acts, found out just how costly it was in the weeks following a March 10, 2003, concert in London. Indulging

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